"Let me be clear: we will not be selling any government or public owned assets." With those words new Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman took the privatisation plans presented by Joe Hockey off the agenda. Tasmania's lucrative and renewable energy business, 'the hydro' will stay in the public ...

Details have been revealed about the ten most prescribed and most expensive drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in the past year. The most expensive drugs for the Government were approved in March, and within just four months they had already cost tax payers one billion dollars. But ...

Political correspondent David Lipson recaps the tumultuous year in politics, which ended with a win for the Turnbull government with the passing of the ABCC bill but leaves the federal budget worse off than what Labor had on offer....

After an arduous political year, parliament is on its end of year break. Treasurer Scott Morrison discusses the last minute backpacker tax deals and its delivering over 70 per cent of the commitments made in the original 2015-16 budget. The Treasurer also discusses the incoming focus for the ...

The Greens backed the Government in the bid to secure changes to the backpacker tax on the last day of parliament. The surprise deal secured $100 million for Landcare. Greens leader Richard Di Natale joins AM to discuss the political influence of the Greens and focuses for the party in 2017. ...